I started my 7-Day Water Fast today

I started today my short 7-Day Water Fast; it's the second one that I'm doing so far. Since it's just the first day, actually first hours – I'm feeling hungry a bit at the moment – nothing crazy though.

I've not been feeling good in the past few days, not sure if was for the probiotic that I took or the ones I used to prepare my vegan-cheese, in any case my stomach really bothered me lately – I've been also eating a lot, so it might be just overwhelmed for all the food that I stuffed myself with, especially the peanut butter and cacao powder used with my fruits, not to mention the tons of dates I had with them. I really needed this Water Fast, to let my body heal and my digestive system to take a break.

My weight this morning was 58.5Kg, so basically I gained like 5lb in 4/5 days because of my cravings, I was doing so well and suddenly I got crazy dreaming about nuts and peanut butter and bananas, it takes so little to be off the wagon really, so I better be under Water Fast control until I'm back on track.

Today's Friday and I'm back in the office, I took care of most of my food – my fridge is empty now, I have left only a couple of apples and pears, and 4 big mangoes. They are not ripe yet, once I can see that they're good I'll chop everything and dispose in the freezer with the rest of the stuff. The other day I prepared an amazing marinara sauce with my tomatoes, it came out in two jars and I froze them directly. My freezer is full now, I guess the only thing I won't be able to freeze are some cucumber slides left in the fridge, oh well I will throw them out today, I don't like frozen cucumber, even in the smoothies it tastes awful anyway.

One thing I have done with the huge amount of carrots that I have is shredding them all, I washed and peeled the whole bad and I shredded with a cheese grater that I have, I want to use them for a carrots cake, once I'm done with this water fast. But I promised myself I should be good on doing too many gourmet recipes and stick with max once a week, otherwise it's easy for me to get caught in this vicious circle of cooking and eating. I should eat more mono-ingredient meals, more watery food as well as good smoothies; for some reasons I believe I would eat more drinking but I have to give it a try and start to learn on understanding my body on when I'm really hungry without eating on a schedule. It will help for sure to keep my weight under control.

Taking care of my Fruits & Vegetables - Getting ready for my 7-Day Water Fast

Today I just want to give few updates on how I am doing with my Raw Vegan Diet and my cravings. I'm working from home today so it is generally bad when I do it, because it's just me and my kitchen temptations. I love cooking and I always look forward to find a new gourmet recipe that I want to try, new flavours to taste and so on. So in short I ate like a pig all day basically.

Since I planned to start a 7-day Water Fast very soon, I wanted to be sure I will not waste any of the food that I bought in the past few days, so I started to organize all my fruits and vegetables. Let's face it fruits are very easy to freeze comparable vegetables. So I cut all the ripe fruits and stored in the freezer, so they can be ready to thaw or to use in any smoothie, at the end anything that is frozen does not expire and can be used any time in the future – I'm sure I will have plenty of opportunities, so I'm not worried when I can freeze produce. For the vegetables it's a little be tricky, I had to do a sort of preparation, especially for the tomatoes that I really don't feel confident on just freeze them like a do with the blueberries. To avoid wasting my Roma tomatoes I prepared my first delicious Marinara sauce; I found an easy recipe on Pinterest and turned out very tasty. I used the Roma tomatoes, some extra sweet cherry tomatoes and my organic sundried tomatoes (with no oil). At the end I filled 2 containers that could be used for my zucchini noodles in the future, plus is a very low fat sauce and I like low fat so far.

For the huge amount of carrots that I have a had a different solutions, I saw a recipe of a Raw Vegan carrots cake that I would like to try so I shredded all my carrots and stored in plastic bags in the freezer, so they're ready for the recipe once I'm good on doing it, the only thing I regret of not doing is taking note on how much carrots I had in each bag, I should have weighted and labelled each of them so I had an easier way using it during the recipe execution, oh well I guess I will figured out once I'm doing it the cake.

The 2 odd zucchini that I bought at China Town the other day I just washed and put them in a bag, I didn't want to do noodles really, I might just use them for sauces or something like that, to make the sauce creamer as I do with regular zucchini sometimes. I do have also some chopped carrots and zucchini in the freezer as well, I can always use for smoothies or other blended recipes done with the Vitamix, if I thaw them in the fridge for a couple of days I'm sure they'll be ok….hopefully.

Today I prepared for the first time the vegetable wraps that I always see on those Raw Vegan recipes, I had a bunch of organic red Swiss Chard and I used my veggie-cheese with some carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini noodles, it was delicious! It is really not easy to eat them since they were falling apart but overall the taste was great, I might not do often though, not because they're complicated to do it but just for the general mess while eating, well unless I improve my skills as wraps-eater.

I still need to take care of some of the fruits left behind; I have mangoes, apples, pears, bananas and three persimmons. Once they're ripe enough I'll chop everything and freeze, ok maybe I'll eat a couple of apples or bananas before then. The persimmons are in season right now and although I always hated this fruit growing up, I wanted to give them a second chance this time and use it for my pumpkin pie recipe. I might cut them and freeze for now though since I'm not planning to do any pie before I complete my 7-Day Water Fast; maybe I'll prepare a good pie to bring for my Christmas dinner invitations, let's see – this year will be a challenge eating Raw Vegan in an Italian dinner family setup!